Rockabilly Goats Gruff Fan Club

Sure, when I met these Billies back in '53, I want to stomp them to smithereens (man, was I a Square). But since I first rocked and rolled to their Rockabilly beat, I have hop'd up their legend best I could.

Now this cat Jeff Crosby has written a book about me and my boys for kiddos. Read on, Daddy-o! —Troll

I love that Austin band Ruby Dee & the Snakehandlersto smithereens!!They done play at the big old party for the book Rockabilly Goats Gruff. Here they are ripping through Sean Mencher’s song Rockin’ Troll. Man, can that Betty sing!! And, yup, that’s me in the video, rockin’. As in rockin’ troll. Yup.

If this Troll thinks anything is tragic, it is the fact that no one ever recorded the Rockabilly Goats Gruff at the Shimmy Shack or any of the Tennessee backwater honky tonks they rocked in.

Now this old Troll don’t remember much, but I ‘member some of the words to my anthem Rockin’ Troll and I just lumbered North to meet Sean Mencher in Maine (nice bridges there). Sean is the guitarist for the le-gen-dary band High Noon and a big fan of my Billies.

Sean recreated the Rockin’ Troll tune on his gui-tar and rewrote the words (turns out I did not ‘member much). Here he is at his kitchen table and the song he wrote goes like this…

Man, I love that Mencher man!!

Any old band is welcome to cover Sean Mencher’s version of Rockin’ Troll. You can grab the chords and words here...